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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Crazy for Benches and Stools!

Before I show my benches and stools, I wanted to share some very exciting news with you!! I was one of the winners at Whisperwood Cottage's most recent Cottages & Bunglalows Magazine Scouting Party!!! I just received my issue in the mail and it was a dream come true seeing one of my projects in print! I am beyond excited and so grateful!! Ahhhhh!!!!!

Can you believe it?!?!? If you would like to see more of the project go HERE.

Ok. Back to the stools and benches! :)

Over the last few months I've been coming across quite a few stools. I have a hard time passing them up when I see them because they are just so cute and there are so many ways you can redo them!

As for benches, I found three of them two years ago and have finally finished redoing the last one.

The benches originally looked like this:

The first one turned out like this:

The second one like this:

And the third now looks like this:

I used the same concept as my Union Jack pillow to recover the bench with drop cloth and lace.

I was so excited to get started on the rest of my stools that I forgot to take before pictures, but here are the afters of them all.

This was a simple unfinished pine stool that I stained in Dark Walnut, painted, distressed and stenciled the grey star on top!

I didn't have to do anything to this stool and I love how rustic is it!

I have been snapping up yardsticks and rulers for a year anytime I see them at estate sales to collect enough to start making some projects with them. I am in love with how this stool turned out!!

You did a fabulous job on all of them. Love the one with yardsticks, I've been collecting them too for the last year just waiting to use them on something. Still need to collect a few more though.Thanks so much for inspiring me today!

Hey, Suzy! I like them all but my favorite is the yardstick stool. The Carter Lumber yardstick is from a now closed Carter Lumber that was only 3 miles from our house! Well done, my favorite 30 year old niece!

This is a fabulous post on stools ~ I love 'em all!! Especially the one with the rulers and the Union Jack one ~ and I have never cared for any type of Union Jack design before but yours rocks! Great design!

Popped on over from Nick of Time. I too share your passion for stools. I have a few myself and am always on the lookout for more. I have a three year old grand daughter and they sure come in handy for her use. I especially love the diversity of how you finished yours off! I usually paint and recover mine with fabric. You have definitely challenged me to try something new!!

I love them all, and congrats on the magazine feature! I would love for you to come link up at my weekly linky party Thrifty to Nifty Thursdays at A Jennuine Life. I'm working with a couple of bigger bloggers to feature great projects, so I'm hoping to bring fabulous exposure for participants! http://ajennuinelife.blogspot.com/2013/01/thrifty-to-nifty-thursdays-2.html

I loved your yardstick bench! I saw it on Pinterest and it reminded me of a desk my dad recently made in terms of school house charm. I just wanted to let you know I mentioned it on his blog with credit to you of course!

The feature in the magazine is a credit to your creativity. You should be so proud! The stools are some of the cutest I've seen. I'll be looking for these when I'm out junking. Thanks for the inspiration.Nancy